I commit myself to sabotage

See, I can get what I want

Then I make it hard to hold on

Convince myself that I'm without a god

A spiritual fraud that got lost in her own sad song

We were talking out back, by the garbage cans

'Bout dreams that we had, and the five-year plan

Missing the mark, I'm laughing in the dark

'Cause after all, no one's in control

Go easy, kid, it's only rock and roll

Pledge allegiance to some sanity

It comes into view for a moment or two

Then it leaves me

Apologizing to the neighborhood

And all the calls will be saved

Look I'd wanna be brave if I could

I was talking out back, with an empty man

He said "'Remember times that we had before you got in that van?"

Left me in the dark, alone in the park

'Cause after all, no one's in control

Go easy kid, it's only rock and roll

Cut through the smoke

There's no secret special code

No deeper hidden wisdom

Just accept we'll never know

We were talking out back, by the garbage cans

'Bout dreams that we had, and the five-year plan

Missing the mark, laughing in the dark

'Cause after all, no one's in control

Go easy, kid

In twenty years, kid

You're gonna look back

And wish you grabbed it by the throat

And said "Fuck it, it's only rock and roll"